Melissa K. DownesErotic Islands: The Caribbean in Early Eighteenth-Century British Literature

Heather Miyano KopelsonMarriage and Miscegenation: Family Identity in Bermuda, 1650-1720

Angelita D. ReyesWhat's Love Got to Do With It? Black Women, White Men and the Politics of Miscegenation in the Atlantic World
Kimberly D. SnyderLa Cordifiamma: Refashioning Racial Identity in Charles Kingsley’s Two Years Ago

Panel #2

Noble Savages and Wild Men:

Alexander Room

Chair:Jennifer Keith

Melissa BailesCaliban’s Great Chain of Being: Tyranny and Identification in Robert Browning’s “Caliban upon Setebos, or Natural Theology in the Island"

Nicole EustaceRuling Passions: Surveying the Borders of Humanity on the Pennsylvania Frontier

Brianne OrrGood Savage or Wild Man: the Construction of Amerindian Identity from the European Gaze

Karen Sands-O’ConnorSugar and Spice, Not so Nice: Creating the West Indian Subject in 19th Century British Children’s Literature

Panel #3

Spanish and French Louisiana:

Kirkland Room

Chair:James Anderson

Guillaume Aubert"Can a Métis be a Régnicole?: The Racial Redefinition of French National Identity in New France and Colonial Louisiana

Caryn Cossé BellIdentity Formation in the Revolutionary Atlantic: The Haitian Legacy in Creole New Orleans

Light T. Cummins
Mapping Identity on the Margins of Empire: The Market Economy and Anglo-American Migration into Spanish Louisiana, 1769-1803

Panel #4

Colonial Settings and Subtexts in Early Nineteenth-Century Novels:

Claxton Room

Chair:Hephzibah Roskelly

Brooke Conti"Stigmata Laudis": William Prynne, Archbishop Laud, and Hawthorne's Use of History in The Scarlet Letter